On 22/07/2011 14:11, lilo wrote:
> On 21/07/2011 20:50, Argon wrote:
>> A user called Greg Maxwell just uploaded a torrent with 18,592
>> scientific publications to The Pirate Bay, in what appears to be a
>> protest directed both at the recent indictment of programmer Aaron
>> Swartz for data theft as well as the scientific-publishing model in
>> general. All of the documents of the 32-gigabyte torrent were taken from
>> JSTOR, the academic database that’s at the center of the case against
>> Swartz.
>>
>> http://gigaom.com/2011/07/21/pirate-bay-jstor/
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6554331/Papers_from_Philosophical_Transactions_of_the_Royal_Society__fro
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This archive contains 18,592 scientific publications totaling
33GiB, all from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
and which should be available to everyone at no cost, but most
have previously only been made available at high prices through
paywall gatekeepers like JSTOR.
[...]
The portion of the collection included in this archive, ones published
prior to 1923 and therefore obviously in the public domain, total some
18,592 papers and 33 gigabytes of data.
The documents are part of the shared heritage of all mankind,
and are rightfully in the public domain, but they are not available
freely. Instead the articles are available at $19 each--for one month's
viewing, by one person, on one computer. It's a steal. From you.
[...]
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~lilo~
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